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After days traveling around Europe looking at cathedrals, you might start to think that they all look the same. Until you hit Barcelona and see La Sagrada Familia.
Designed by Antoni Gaudi, the cathedral has been under construction since 1882 and won’t be finished for another 30 to 80 years, depending upon whom you ask. Gaudi oversaw construction until his 1926 death, often building and rebuilding sections as he went along. But since his death there have been disputes over the materials used, the interpretation of Gaudi’s remaining designs and problems with funding.
The cathedral is not your typical church. From some angles you might see familiar Gothic architectural elements, but then you’ll see fruit on a spire, or a mathematical magic square inscribed in a facade. As with most of Gaudi’s architecture, nothing is quite as you expect it to be.
Visitors can both walk around the ground floor of the cathedral, and take a lift or the stairs to the top and look out over the brightly-colored gargoyles. The cathedral is open from 9 am to 6 pm–later in summer. We recommend that you buy a combined entrance ticket with the Casa-Museu Gaudi, Gaudi’s house in Park Guell, another must-see stop in Barcelona.
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Barcelona, the capital city of the Spanish province of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, sits along the Mediterranean coastline. The city...
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